Decision 2008

With only a few weeks left, it looks like Dash for the Timber is going to win our Decision 2008 program by a landslide. However, there is still time to change the course of the election. Take the time to cast a vote for your favorite painting and sculpture in the museum’s collection, and then check back to see how your favorite fares in the polls:

Eighteen Votes
Frederic S. Remington
A Dash for the Timber

Ten Votes
Grant Wood
Parson Weems’ Fable

Nine Votes
Thomas Cole
The Hunter’s Return

William J. McCloskey
Wrapped Oranges

Five Votes Each
Albert Bierstadt
Sunrise, Yosemite Valley

This work fits with where I am in my life right now. I am in search of serenity and in awe of majesty. This work has both, and is a great inspiration to me.
Amy Rasor, 32
Fort Worth, Texas

Alexander Calder
[Untitled]

I love the movement and play of shadows on the walls around the sculpture. It gives the work both a two dimensional and three dimensional image.
Pat Brown, 60
Walnut Springs, Texas

Martin Johnson Heade
Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay

Very atmospheric feeling from the painting—powerful and ominous (moment in time)
Stephen Seate, 61
Fort Worth, Texas

Thomas Moran
Cliffs of Green River

Georgia O’Keeffe
White Birch

John Singer Sargent
Alice Vanderbilt Shepard

John Quincy Adams Ward
The Freedman

Four Votes Each
Thomas Eakins
Swimming

Fitz Henry Lane
Boston Harbor

Three Votes Each
Thomas Cole
The Garden of Eden

Stuart Davis
Blips and Ifs
Jim Haas, 67
Fort Worth, Texas

Daniel Chester French
Benediction

Sanford Robinson Gifford
The View from Eagle Rock, New Jersey

It made me feel that this couple has their entire future ahead of them! Much like myself.
Tanya Stahlbusch, 32
Santa Barbara, California

Marsden Hartley
Provincetown Abstraction

Thomas Hovenden
Chloe and Sam
Detailed and intricate
Rosemary Stahlbusch, 62
Granbury, Texas

Frederic S. Remington
The Cowboy

Frederic S. Remington
The Old Stage Coach of the Plains

Frederic S. Remington
Ridden Down

Two Votes Each
Alexander Calder
Studies for Amon Carter Museum Plaza

Alexander Stirling Calder
An American Stoic

Stuart Davis
Chinatown

Charles Demuth
Chimney and Water Tower

William M. Harnett
Ease

Marsden Hartley
American Indian Symbols

David Johnson
Eagle Cliff, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire

Georgia O’Keeffe
Black Patio Door

Georgia O’Keeffe
Dark Mesa and Pink Sky

William T. Ranney
Marion Crossing the Pee Dee

Frederic S. Remington
The Right of the Road

Ben Shahn
World’s Greatest Comics

One Vote Each
Saul Baizerman
Cantata

Paul Bartlett
Bear Cub Grooming

George Caleb Bingham
View of Pike’s Peak

Henry Kirke Brown
Filatrice (The Spinner)
Many reasons: 1. I am a weaver so anything connected to weaving grabs my attention. 2. The piece is classical. I love the style. 3. I love the connection of women’s contribution to the American Revolution.
Jean Walbridge, 64
Fort Worth, Texas

Frederic Edwin Church
New England Landscape

Arthur Dove
The Lobster

John Haberle
Can You Break a Five?

William M. Harnett
Attention Company

Martin Johnson Heade
Two Hummingbirds above a White Orchid

Winslow Homer
Crossing the Pasture

Louise Nevelson
Lunar Landscape Wall

Georgia O’Keeffe
Series I – No. 1

Julian Onderdonk
A Cloudy Day, Bluebonnets near San Antonio, Texas

John Frederick Peto
A Closet Door

Alexander Phimister Proctor
Indian Warrior

Frederic S. Remington
The Broncho Buster
William Thomas, 62
Augusta, Maine